Health Care Industry

Insurer Profits Are Up In The Wake Of Health Care Law They Opposed

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.06.2012

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Since insurance companies undertook extensive lobbying efforts against health care reform -- spending millions in an attempt to derail the legislation...

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The 'United State' Of Health Care

online.wsj.com | Posted 12.13.2011

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Call it the united state of health care. Amid enormous pressure to cut costs, improve care and prepare for changes tied to the federal health-care ...

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Health Care Workers On Verge Of Winning Equal Rights, Higher Pay

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Though many of the people they care for wouldn’t know it, the roughly two million home care aides who tend to the elderly and disabled...

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Data Breaches Show Hospitals Not Ready For Shift To Electronic Records, Experts Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 11.09.2011

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As the federal government pushes to digitize health records, current security practices are inadequate to defend against a growing number of data brea...

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Influential Group Looking For Super Committee To Fail

Posted 11.06.2011

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(Reuters) - The powerful healthcare industry hopes a congressional "super committee" tasked with slashing America's debt will fail and is lobbying...

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Nonprofit Hospitals Running Out Of Cash, Face Downgrades: Moody's

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 10.10.2011

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A dwindling number of patients, combined with oncoming Medicare and Medicaid cuts, are making more likely the prospect of nonprofit hospitals being is...

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Caregivers Provide $450 Billion In Annual Unpaid Labor: Study

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 09.17.2011

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Family caregivers performed about $450 billion worth of unpaid labor in the U.S. in 2009, a new study from the AARP has found, according to NPR. Th...

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America's 10 Best-Paying Jobs

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 07.20.2011

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More than one year after President Barack Obama signed health care reform into law, one thing hasn't changed: doctors are well paid. The Bureau Of ...

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Consumers Of Individual Health Policies Are 'Trapped'

latimes.com | Duke Helfand | Posted 05.25.2011

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They have few options other than dropping coverage as insurers raise rates and slash benefits. Insurers blame the soaring cost of medical care and the...

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Medicare Part D Creators Now Working For Lobbyists With Billions At Stake

ProPublica | Olga Pierce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Four years ago, a group of lawmakers and aides crafted Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program for seniors that has produced billions of dollar...

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Health Insurance Industry: How Karl Marx Can Help Us Understand the Health Care Crisis

Yuna Shin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The word "industry" itself is apt in describing our current insurance system. Under "industry" we assume that there is a concrete, external object produced through human labor that is insurable.

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Health Care Study: Lack Of Insurance Has Led To 17,000 Child Deaths

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lack of adequate health care may have contributed to the deaths of some 17,000 US children over the past two decades, according to a study released by...

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Why Real Health Care Reform Is Impossible

Barry Sears | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Inflammation, Health Care, Chronic Disease, Healthy Lifestyle, Unhealthy Foods, Food, Food Subsidies, Insurance Reform, Processed Foods, Health Care Industry, Healthy Living News

Health care providers are making too much money. So what is the solution? Less health insurance, not more, may be the answer. Fewer food subsidies, not more, might be a start.

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Health Care Stocks Soar With Release Of Baucus' Reform Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Max Baucus was paid handsomely (in campaign contributions) by the health care industry to deliver a health care reform bill that only the health care ...

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Corporatists vs. Capitalists

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

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I don't blame the health care companies. I would do the same thing in their position. They'd have to be stupid and negligent not to buy Max Baucus. I don't blame them, I blame us.

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Pollan says health-care reform will fail unless we change the way we eat

Grist | Posted 05.25.2011

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First in The New York Times last week and then on NPR this weekend, Michael Pollan made that point that if we want to fix our health-care system, we h...

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Execs Profited From Bogus Bonuses

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BISMARCK, N.D. -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota used premium payments to fund $15 million in employee bonuses, cover $35,000 for a retirement...

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Health Insurance Stocks Soar On Baucus Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the things that gets obscured by the huge sums of money being spent by lobbyists to degrade, deride, and defuse legislation is that in reality,...

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Baucus Leading Recipient Of Health Care Industry Cash

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 05.25.2011

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As liberal protesters marched outside, Sen. Max Baucus sat down inside a San Francisco mansion for a dinner of chicken cordon bleu and a discussion o...

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PhRMA, Pfizer lead in health lobbying

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The drug industry's trade group and one of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical companies reported spending more money than other he...

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Private-Sector Partnerships Bode Well for Health Reform

Doug Schoen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bringing industry leaders into the legislative process diffuses one of the biggest threats to comprehensive health care reform.

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Pharmaceutical Industry's Deal Is a Reform-Enhancing Drug

Doug Schoen | Posted 05.25.2011

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By sitting down at the table and agreeing to sacrifice for the cause of health care reform, the drug industry is moving the process in the right direction.

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We Must Stop the Rampant Fraud in the Health Care Industry

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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What we have seen over the last several decades is the systemic fraud perpetrated by private insurance companies, private drug companies, and private for-profit hospitals ripping off the American people.

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Nate Silver: Health Care Industry Lobbying, Contributions Could Doom Public Option

FiveThirtyEight.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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As I lamented yesterday, health care is one of those areas where both popular opinion and sound public policy seem to take a backseat to protecting th...

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Daschle's Firm And Group Have Ties To Private Health Care Industry

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The firm that houses two of the three former Senate majority leaders who proposed a comprehensive health care compromise plan on Wednesday has been pa...

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